What I’ve done

Performance & presentations, features & interviews (scroll), speaking engagements (scroll more), writing (scroll!), etc.

A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry By Women: Readings, Music and Conversation

New York Public Library, 2021

Contemporary women artists and writers celebrate the collection, The Mirror of My Heart through readings, music, and a discussion about carrying forward this terrific lineage of poetic thinking.

Khuda Bowad Yaret: When I’m No Longer Here

Toronto Queer Film Festival, 2021

Khuda Bowad Yarat/When I Am No Longer Here is a video recreation and reconciliation with queer mortality. 

Intimate Conflicts: Queer Lives in Times of War

British International Studies Conference, 2021

Conflicts become perpetual realities in the lives of those displaced, exiled, racialized, minoritized, queer and trans across different borders, societies, times and spaces. How do minoritized individuals across different borders and boundaries experience ‘intimate conflicts’? The artists, activists and scholars on this roundtable will shares their poetry, art work, narratives and scholarships exploring these inquiries through an intimate, collective, queer and feminist conversation.

Khuda Bowad Yaret: When I’m No Longer Here, Poetics and Politics of Queer Conflicts Roundtable

International Journal of Feminist Politics Journal Conference, 2021

What are queer conflicts? How do queer and trans individuals experience conflicts? This panel extends the meaning of conflict beyond political violence to include internal conflict of queer individuals. We also consider conflict over sexual orientation and state/religion/society, the tension between Islamophobia and queerphobia, the move between the category of the homosexual and the terrorist, and the constructed binary of the violent masculine/effeminate homosexual.

Ke marge bekhabar dara judaye; when I'm no longer here

Apparitions Online Exhibition, 2020

Informed by a diasporic framework and Jacques Derrida’s concept of hauntology, APPARITIONS emphasizes the sensory; disconnection from body, land, heritage, ancestors, and history; and repressed history and memory.

Reimagining Queer Futures: Afghans and Art in the Diaspora

Afghan American Artists and Writers (AAWA), 2020

Panel discussion featuring activists, writers, and artists on how creativity and the arts are being mobilized by the LGBTQ Afghan diaspora as a form of resistance and community-building.

Inna lillahi wa inna illahi rajiun, Where Will I Be Buried

Flux Factory, NY, 2020

Where will I be buried*?* holds space for artists and audiences from marginalized communities to center ourselves in our mourning, healing and transformations. For QTBIPOC communities the question of where “will I be buried” is not easily answered. How we approach ritual, ceremony and death varies from culture to culture, religion to religion and even more so depending on your gender or sexual identity. Using death as an entry point the included artists bring dynamic responses to the titular question exploring pleasure, pain, longing and transcendence.

Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji'un, EmergeNYC 2020 presents: Works in Progress

Abrons Center, NY, 2020

Ahesto Boro, YKR 5: Decoded

Dixon Place, NY, 2019

YKR is a transformational storytelling project featuring artists of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean heritage.

Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love

born in New York, NY - shared nationally, Present  - 2011